Network Monitoring Software

The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. It is a subset of the functions involved in network management

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List of Network Monitoring Softwares

Bandwidth Monitor
Daily, weekly, and monthly information logs * Compatible with all versions of windows * Options and graphs for capped users * Multiple users and selectable adapters * Network and dial-up connections * English, Italian, German, and Russian

FREEping - Server Pinging
Do you want to know if all your Windows 2003-XP-2000-NT servers are alive and pinging? Do you want to receive a pop-up message when one of them is not running anymore? FREEping is a free ping software utility which will ping all your IP addresses in free-definable intervals. FREEping automatically pings in the background and shows statistics for each pinged hosts. When a host stops responding, FREEping can send popup messages to a specified destination.

Look@LAN
Auto-Detect of Network Settings * Scanning of one or more Scan-Ranges * Complete Management of Network Profiles * World's Faster Node Discovery Scan * Automatic and Manual Network Configuration * Network Statistics and Graphs * Profile Export (text and HTML) * Advanced Trapping * Network Log * Network Tree View * Proof Single Node Scan * Reporting

Servers Alive
Servers Alive is an end-to-end network monitor program. Among the many checks it can do: it can monitor any Winsock service, ping a host, check if an NT service/process is running, check the available disk space on a server, retrieve a URL, check your database engine, and more.

Sysinternals CPUMon
Use this advanced tool to read the performance counters of Pentium, Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors. Not for the faint of heart, CPUMon is intended for those with a good familiarity of processor architecture. Version 2.0 is integrated with Perfmon.

Sysinternals DebugView
Another first from Sysinternals: This program intercepts calls made to DbgPrint by device drivers and OutputDebugString made by Win32 programs. It allows for viewing and recording of debug session output on your local machine or across the Internet without an active debugger.

Sysinternals DiskMon
This utility captures all hard disk activity or acts like a software disk activity light in your system tray.

Sysinternals FileMon for Linux
This monitoring tool lets you see all file system activity in real-time. Versions exist for all versions of WinNT/2K, Windows 9x/Me, Windows XP 64-bit Edition, and Linux.

Sysinternals FileMon for Windows
This monitoring tool lets you see all file system activity in real-time. It works on all versions of WinNT/2K/XP, Windows 9x/Me, Windows XP 64-bit Edition, and Linux.

Sysinternals Handle
This handy command-line utility will show you what files are open by which processes, and much more.

Sysinternals ListDLLs
List all the DLLs that are currently loaded, including where they are loaded and their version numbers. Version 2.0 prints the full path names of loaded modules.

Sysinternals NTFSInfo Use NTFSInfo to see detailed information about NTFS volumes, including the size and location of the Master File Table (MFT) and MFT-zone, as well as the sizes of the NTFS meta-data files.

Sysinternals PMon This is an NT Gui/device driver program that watches process and thread creation and deletion, as well as context swaps if running on a multiprocessing or checked kernel.

Sysinternals PortMon Monitor serial and parallel port activity with this advanced monitoring tool. It knows about all standard serial and parallel IOCTLs and even shows you a portion of the data being sent and received. Version 3.x has powerful new UI enhancements and advanced filtering capabilities.

Sysinternals Process Explorer Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more. This uniquely powerful utility will even show you who owns each process.

Sysinternals PSTools Suite
The PsTools suite includes command-line utilities for listing the processes running on local or remote computers, running processes remotely, rebooting computers, dumping event logs, and more.

Sysinternals RegMon
This monitoring tool lets you see all Registry activity in real-time. It works on all versions of WinNT/2K, Windows 9x/Me and Windows 64-bit.

Sysinternals TCPView
See all open TCP and UDP endpoints. On Windows NT, 2000 and XP TCPView even displays the name of the process that owns each endpoint. Full source to the command-line version of this tool, netstatp, is included.

Sysinternals TDIMon
See TCP and UDP activity in real-time with this advanced network API monitoring tool.

Sysinternals TokenMon
Watch security-related activity, including logon, logoff, privilege usage, and impersonation with this monitoring tool. Full source code included.

Sysinternals WinObj
The ultimate Object Manager namespace viewer is here. Version 2.0 has significant UI enhancements, knows about more object types, and is integrated with NT's native security editors.

• Aggregate Network Manager is an enterprise-grade network/application/performance monitoring platform. It tightly integrates with other smart building management systems, such as physical access control, HVAC, lighting, and time/attendance control.
• Airwave Management PlatformT (AMP) wireless network management software provides centralized control for Wi-Fi networks. Features include: access point configuration management, reporting, user tracking, help desk views, and rogue AP discovery.
• akk@da is a simple network monitoring system designed for small and middle size computer networks. Its purpose is to quick detect system or network fault and to display information about detected problems for administrators. akk@da is designed as a pro-active network monitor. It does not wait for information from any agents, systems, etc. It collects information every single minute (you can decrease this period to 1 second). Almost all services of the monitored hosts are discovered automatically.
• Andrisoft WANGuard Platform provides solutions for WAN links monitoring, DDoS detection and mitigation, traffic accounting and graphing.
• Axence nVision monitors network infrastructure: Windows, TCP/IP services, web and mail servers, URLs, applications (MS Exchange, SQL etc.). It also monitors routers and switches: network traffic, interface status, connected computers. nVision collects network inventory and audit license usage - it can alert in case of a program installation or any configuration change on a remote node. With the agent you can monitor user activity and access computers remotely.
• Castle Rock
• CITTIO Watchtower WatchTower is an automated network and systems monitoring platform. It automatically discovers, configures, thresholds, and monitors IP-enabled devices from servers and switches to security cameras and HVAC.
• CommandCenter NOC from Raritan provides polling, Windows and UNIX/Linux server management, intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning, and traffic analysis in an integrated appliance.
• Cymphonix Network Composer monitors Internet traffic by user, application, and threat. Includes controls to shape access to Internet resources by user, group, and/or time of day. Also featuring anonymous proxy blocking, policy management, and real time monitoring.
• David system allows you to manage your resources and services through both Intranet and Internet. provide auto-discovering and network topology building features to help keep an intuitive view of your IT infrastructure. Resources, real-time monitoring and accessibility of historical data enable reaction to failures. Configured interfaces for monitored devices allow you to focus on the most important aspects of their work.
• dopplerVUe provides network discovery, mapping and rules system enables monitoring of Ping, SNMP, syslog, and WMI performance metrics. Can be used to monitor IPv6 devices. Monitors services such as DNS, http and email.
• eBox is an open source distribution and development framework, based on Ubuntu Linux, intended to manage services in a computer network.
• EM7 from Sciencelogic is an NMS integrated with trouble-ticketing, event management, reporting, IP management, DNS and monitoring.
• Fidelia also has the Helix entry level tool for small enterprises.
• FreeNATS, is an open-source network monitoring, alerting and reporting system available as PHP source and as a virtual appliance.
• GEM Network Monitoring a network monitoring tool that provide SLA reports, dashboards, also monitors anything within a IT network, performance graphs, notifications prior to device failures.
• Hounddog provides easy & affordable tools for IT Companies/MSP.s to monitor, manage and support their customers networks, servers and workstations.
• Intellipool Network Monitor is a solution for monitoring, notification, and reporting. It includes agentless monitoring of Windows, Unix, Linux, and BSD operating system. It also includes distributed testing, a unique feature that makes it possible to monitor servers, routers and other network connected equipment that are behind a firewall or only accessible trough a VPN.
• InterMapper Networking monitoring and alerting software for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Solaris.
• IP Host Network Monitor is a network and server monitoring tool that lets you monitor availability and performance of mail servers, internet hosts, database servers, and other network resources. Performance counters on Windows computers can be monitored using WMI. Other supported protocols are HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, ODBC, PING...
• ipMonitor is a network monitoring solution that allows network administrators, webmasters, and Internet service providers to monitor any networked device on the Internet, corporate intranet, or TCP/IP LAN and receive alerts immediately via audible alarm, message, e-mail, or third-party software when a connection fails. It is a powerful personal monitoring product delivering low cost, simplicity of operation, and round-the-clock coverage.
• Just For Fun Network Monitoring System (JFFNMS) is FREE and designed to maintain a IP SNMP / Syslog / Tacacs+ Network. It can be used to monitor any standards compilant SNMP device, Server, TCP port or Custom Poller, also it has some Cisco oriented features.
• Klogie a commercial remote network monitoring system that designed for ease of use.
• LANsurveyor network and desktop management software providing automatic network maps, asset management reports, network monitor and remote administration and distribution.
• is a server/client based monitoring system. On every monitored node, a monitoring agent launches and communicates using a push/pull protocol with sensors which are responsible for retrieving monitoring information. The extracted samples are stored on a local cache and forwarded to a central Measurement Repository using UDP or TCP transport protocol with or without authentication/encryption of data samples. Sensors can collect information on behalf of remote entities like switches or power supplies. The Measurement Repository can interface to a relational database or a flat-file backend for storing the received samples. Web based interface is provided for visualizing the data.
• LITHIUM LITHIUM|Core is an integrated device and service monitoring platform with a tightly coupled incident tracking and case management system and incorporates a web-based interface as well as Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X monitoring consoles.
• Little:eye, for management of IT infrastructure of enterprise provides management of fault, performance, inventory and configuration.
• LogisoftAR provides is an NMP running under Windows providing device discovery, mapping, fault (using SNMP traps and syslog) and performance management. Reporting is provided in HTML pages.
• MetaNAV Network Administration Visualized is a software suite to monitor large computer networks. It automatically discovers network topology, monitors network load and outages, and can send alerts on network events by e-mail and SMS, allowing for flexible configuration of alert profiles.
• MoniTiL continuously monitors applications, services, networks and events using WMI, snmp, web, tcp and ping.
• Monitoring Genie is a large scale data collection and monitoring platform built for telcos and large service providedrs, able to monitor multiple parameters in 100Ks of nodes in very shory cycles of about a minute using multiple protocols (icmp,snmp,sql,http,telnet,ssh,wmi,registry,open ports...). It can perform actions based on monitoring status changes using conditions and correlation rules. The platform comes with a builtin reporting system and pre made reports, and can extended to monitor any parameter in the supported protocols. The platform can work as a stand alone product or connect to existing management platforms (hpov, tivoli & micromuse, unictenter, etc).
• MTD Sentry brings information from SNMP and non-SNMP devices alike together into an enterprise monitoring system with extensions for video based devices.
• Monolith creates customized event management, netflow and performance solutions with a browser-based interface, a single, organic code-set and a dashboarding engine.
• Netcool suite offers five product families that support domain-specific IT management, end-to-end consolidated operations and business service management.
• NeuralStar provides enterprise-class capabilities including NOC level visibility, management of multiple and geographically distributed networks and automatic failover and redundancy for continuous operations.
• OPNET nCompass visualizes network performance metrics in real-time, consolidating topology, traffic & events in a unified view. It automates response to network events and contextually launches 3rd party tools for assisted troubleshooting.
• NetGong is a network monitoring solution allowing network administrators, webmasters, and Internet service providers to monitor any networked device on the Internet, corporate intranet, or TCP/IP LAN and receive alerts via audible alarm, message, e-mail, or third-party software when a connection fails.
• NetInfo is a collection of 15 network tools on a single, interface. NetInfo allows businesses to combat network downtime by allowing network administrators, webmasters, and Internet service providers to isolate faults, process diagnostic data and increase internal network security.
• NetMapper creates automated up-to-date Microsoft Visio® network diagrams, combining multiple physical (Layer 2/3) and logical views of the network with detailed device configurations and topology overlays like BGP, OSPF, VLANs & VPNs
• NetMRI from Netcordia automates much of Network Change & Configuration Management (NCCM)by collecting and analyzing network configuration, snmp, and syslong/event data, and providing daily actionable issues.
• NetPrefect is an enterprise class management and monitoring solution designed primarily for managed service providers that uses a variety of mechanisms to communicate with managed entities including but not limited to snmp, wmi, rs232 and icmp in order to collect statistical and state information (e.g. cpu usage, device/service availability etc) as well as executing management functions on the device.
• NetQoS Performance Center Monitors and provides insight into: end-to-end performance, traffic analysis, VoIP quality, and device performance.
• N-vision provides availability, performance, security and service management to multiple customers from one central Web console.
• NetCrunch from AdRem, provides visualization of physical network topology; flexible performance monitoring, trending and reporting; event filtering and escalation; SNMP management; web access.
• NetMechanica provides low-cost network masnagement services.
• Netview
• NimBUS for Network Monitoring solution verifies network connectivity to devices (routers, switches, servers, etc.) and application services (FTP, SMTP, HTTP, etc.) revealing accessibility and network latency. The solution auto-discovers network interfaces, monitors interface traffic and calculates bandwidth utilization. Uses SNMP and if not available then syslog can be used.
• op5 Monitor provides active monitoring of the IT infrastructure - hardware, traffic & services. This includes connected components from servers, routers and printers services such as mail services, web servers and virus programmes. It is based on Nagios.
• OpenNMS is an enterprise-grade network management platform developed under the open source model. It is designed to scale to tens or hundreds of thousands of managed nodes from a single instance. OpenNMS is an integrated platform providing service availability management, performance data collection (via SNMP, JMX, HTTP, WMI, XMP, and other protocols), event management (internal events, custom events via an XML/TCP interface, and external events via SNMP traps and TL1), event de-duplication, and flexible notifications (via SMTP, XMPP, and many other protocols). The software is free under the GPLv2 license, and commercial support, training, and consulting are available.
• OpenView
• Opsview is enterprise network and application monitoring software designed for scalability, flexibility and ease of use. Opsview has been in development since 2003 (originally based on Nagios) and is released under the GNU GPL license.
• Opsview is enterprise network and application monitoring software designed for scalability, flexibility and ease of use. Opsview has been in development since 2003 (originally based on Nagios) and is released under the GNU GPL license.
• Orion SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor enables you to detect, diagnose, and resolve network outages and performance issues. It offers network-centric views that are designed to deliver the critical information you need.
• Pandetix MSOware is a web based service for monitoring, managing, reporting and notification of events for IP enabled devices. MSOware monitors your host with the selected tool. There is a free trial version.
• Pandora the Free Monitoring System is a Free Software set of programs, set under the GPL license, that monitors and detects network systems using remote tests (ICMP, TCP Sweep, Network scan, SNMP monitoring...), or using local agents to grab application/system datga (has agents for Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Windows XP,2000/2003). Pandora FMS is able to fire alarms, draw graphs and keep event history for each element using a SQL backend
• Q3ADE
• Reconnoiter is a monitoring and trend analysis system designed to cope with large architectures (thousands of machines and hundreds of thousands of metrics).
• Redcell from Dorado Software includes: Discovery, Resynchronization, Topology, Database Services, Data Archiving, Scheduling, Auditing and Logging, Group Operations, CMDB and Event Monitoring. Automated Remediation and Configuration lets administrators find, configure and monitor applications and services, plus converging technologies.networking, security, systems, and storage.from a single console.
• ScriptLogic Perspective addresses the problems associated with bandwidth, network and application performance, and connectivity that are often issues for IT departments. Perspective supports multiple sites, is easy to use.
• SecureMyCompany provides hosted, On Demand network and systems management software for a low monthly fee. Solutions include SNMP, WMI, Event Log and many more monitoring features.
• ServersCheck is a web based monitoring tool for monitoring networks and servers (e.g. temperatures etc.)
• Smarts from EMC is an automated root cause tool with topology views of the network infrastructure, applications and the business layer.

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• Spectrum (ex Cabletron, then Aprisma then Concord Communications then CA). Network Tool specialized in Fault Management and Root Cause Analysis engine. Helps optimize MTTR and MTBF.The tool is modular in that it can also monitor/manage QOS,MPLS/VPN,Multicast Network, Device Configurations.
• SpyGlass, Web based application monitoring and management application providing synthetic monitoring, metric capturing and reporting, deployment, database view and system management. Free License for monitoring a single server.
• StableNet PME Carrier-Grade performance management tool, built upon open standards. Supports active (Ping, SAA) and passive (SNMP, RMON, NetFlow, SFlow) measurements. Integrated topology/inventory, SLA/SLM, reporting.
• Sun Solstice
• SwitchMonitor from NetLatency is a network performance monitoring system that runs on Windows and is designed to monitor network devices for utilization and errors using SNMP.
• SysOrb monitors both network equipment and servers/applications and is accessed via a web interface. Monitoring is done with Agents and IP and SNMP polling. SysOrb comes with an embedded database for stats, alert notification module, report generator etc.
• SysUpTime is a free distributed network/systems management product. It provides users out-of-box capabilities to efficiently and proactively manage networks of any size.
• Tembria Tembria Server Monitor is an affordable server monitoring platform with deep support for Windows server monitoring plus support for Linux and SNMP devices too.
• The Dude is a free network monitor will automatically scan all devices within specified subnets, draw and layout a map of your networks, monitor services of your devices and alert you in case some service has problems.
• VitalNet from Lucent provides on-demand access to data to track, analyze, manage and predict problems, improve capacity utilization and meet service quality commitments. It provides Web-based graphical visibility into wireless or wireline multi-vendor network for DSL, VPN, IP Centrex, streaming video, GigE and diverse 3G wireless services.
• WhatsUp Gold discovers and maps your network, uses SNMP v1-3, WMI and custom scripts to monitor resources and applications on your devices, notifies you via email, SMS, pager, etc., when problems occur, and provides historical and real-time reporting through a Windows console interface, full Web interface, and mobile interface. WhatsUp Gold is available for single networks and as a distributed solution for managing large, geographically dispersed networks
• ZettaView is a 24/7 monitoring, trend analysis, reporting, and alarm management system for LAN, WAN, and ATM that stores information at a 10 second granularity on local probes.
• Zoho Corp ManageEngine OpManager
• Zyrion Traverse a network, application & server monitoring platform with open API, correlated views of IT "services" and integration with flow analysis tools.

Commercial Monitoring Tools, not integrated with an NMP

• ActivXperts Network Monitor monitors servers and workstations in your LAN and WAN. The software monitors Windows, UNIX, LINUX and Novell servers for availability.
• AlertCenter provides monitoring, alerting and corrective action automation scheduling. It is part of the MKS Toolkit.
• AlertSite measures, diagnoses, notifies and reports on the availability and performance of servers, URLs, web applications and virtually any Internet connected device or application.
• Analyzer/Sniffers, see also public domain capture tools.
  • ACE Analyst from OPnet is a transactional analysis solution, based on network packet captures.
  • Anritsu provide the MD1230 portable network and IP network performance monitor.
  • Anasil Analyzer is a software network analyzer of Ethernet networks for Windows 95/98/NT/2000.
  • Anue Systems, makes a Net Tool Optimizer that is used to connect multiple monitoring tools to a network link, or one tool to multiple links. This is a hardware device. It is similar to Gigamon.
  • APCON, manufactures a physical layer matrix switch to remotely move and share network monitoring tools using a software interface or scripting.
  • ClearSight provide a Monitoring/Analysis/Network Recording/Sniffer (up through 10Gbits/s), Packet generator. ClearSight's solutions are graphically oriented.
  • Capsa performs real-time packet capturing, 24/7 network monitoring, protocol analysis, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosis.
  • CommView is a program for monitoring Internet and Local Area Network (LAN) activity capable of capturing and analyzing network packets. It gathers information about data passing through your dial-up connection or Ethernet card and decodes the analyzed data.
  • Cubro provide a network processor based packet handling engine (packetmaster) and software to sniff and analyze packets on multiple links and can eliminate duplicates appearing on multiple links.
  • Distinct Network Monitor is a software packet capture and network protocol analyzer for Windows that translates complex protocol negotiation into natural language, pinpointing where errors occurred.
  • Easy Service Monitor (ESM) will monitor network services to see if they can work properly with a predefined time interval. It runs on Windows.
  • EffeDetect an HTTP packet sniffer, protocol analyzer and file reassembly software based on windows platform. Unlike most other sniffers, it is dedicated to capture IP packets containing HTTP protocol, rebuild the HTTP sessions, and reassemble files sent through HTTP protocol. Its smart real-time analyzer enables on-the-fly content viewing while capture, analyze, parse and decode HTTP protocol.
  • EtherDetect provides a connection-oriented view for analyzing packets.
  • Etherpeek for Windows is an Ethernet network traffic and protocol analyzer designed to assist in troubleshooting and debugging mixed-platform, multi-protocol networks.
  • Finisar provide sniffer like stand alone network test and monitoring devices for 10/100/1G and iSCSI, Infiniband and Fiber Channel.
  • Gigamon Provide a hardware switch to enable connecting a sniffer to multiple links.
  • Javvin Packet Analyzer software-based network analyzer monitors Ethernet and WLAN traffic in real time, and decode packets and displays in.
  • LANExplorer provides packet capture, decode, filtering, matrix, host table, statistics, theresholding and alarms for Windows hosts.
  • LANSurveyor SolarWinds automatically discovers your LAN or WAN and produces comprehensive, easy-to-view network diagrams that integrate OSI Layer 2 and Layer 3 topology data including switch-to-switch, switch-to-node, and switch-to-router port connections.
  • LANWarch Windows software-based network packet analyzer monitors traffic in real time and displays a wide range of statistics in graphical form.
  • LinkFerret tools are designed to provide a comprehensive set of monitoring utilities and packet sniffers to be used for capture, statistical analysis, and protocol decoding in your Ethernet network. It runs on Windows 98/NT4/2000/XP.
  • Netquest OptiCop Converger: Optimizes Network traffic for better utilization of network monitoring tools through the use of link aggregation, packet filtering and interface/protocol translations capabilities.
  • Network Probe is a Windows or Unix network monitor and protocol analyzer providing a picture of the traffic situation on your network and enables you to monitor network traffic in real time, hunt down, identify, and isolate traffic problems and congestions on your network.
  • NetworkActive PIAFCTM (Packet Intercepting, Analyzing, File Constructing Traffic Monitor) network traffic analyzer; packet/protocol analyzer, HTTP file rebuilder, graphical traffic mode (graphical overview of current network communications), and traffic statistics mode. There is also a free for personal and commercial use version that provides a network traffic analyzer plus a packet/protocol analyzer and HTTP file rebuilder.
  • NetScope Graphical network visualisation tool with per-second resolution, real-time and historical data.
  • Observer from Network Instruments is a network analyser (Packet sniffer) for 10/100/1000 100/1000 Full Duplex and Multi truncked Ethernet links, wireless a,b an d g, token ring and FDDI.
  • PacketBoy is a Win9x/NT & Unix packet sniffer analyzer decoder package capable of decoding many of the commonly used LAN protocols.
  • PRTG Traffic Grapher Windows software to monitor bandwidth usage and other network parameters via SNMP. Has a builit in packet sniffer. Freeware also available.
  • Sniffer resource for product information on both portable and distributed Sniffer protocol analyzers, network troubleshooting white papers, Sniffer University training courses, and free protocol stack posters.
  • Sniff'em is a Windows based Packet sniffer, Network analyzer and Network sniffer.
  • Ultra Network Sniffer for Windows lists network packets in real-time from multiple network cards and also supports packet capture.
  • Unsniff Network Analyzer. Scriptable and extensible network analyzer with fresh new views of protocols URL.
  • VSS Monitoring provides a range of distributed traffic capture systems and taps from 10/100 to 10 GigE for complete, selectable and centralized visibility of networks, improving network analyzer reach and efficiency.
  • WildPackets Omni fault analysis platform for optimizing network services and improving uptime on enterprise networks.
• Applications/Services/Systems monitoring
  • AccelOps integrated monitoring solution, which does security, performance, availability and change monitoring for data centers and cloud services.
  • Advanced HostMonitor is a system management tool that continuously monitors servers' availability and performance. In the event of network errors, HostMonitor will alert the network administrator.
  • Alchemy Network Monitor monitors network servers: TCP/IP, ICMP, IPX/SPX, Oracle, MS SQL, NT EventLog, SQL query, HTTP URL, NT service state, maintains log file and sends notifications if the server goes down.

    Also marketed in Europe as Alchemy Eye.

  • Alertra Checks (http, https, ping, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, FTP, TCP) web server from multiple stations around the world.
  • AppMonitor simulates defined web transactions, such as customer logins and purchase order fulfillment, up to every five minutes to verify that web applications are available and performing 24/7
  • AppQos Live! from iTrinergy provides rapid answers in identifying, in real time, the causes of poor application and network performance problems. Usually its delivered via a live CD that turns a pc/desktop/laptop into this tool.
  • Argent Argent has three products - The Argent Guardian, a real-time monitoring and alerting system for NT/2000 servers as well as SNMP-compliant devices; The Argent Predictor, a trend-analysis product for both NT/2000 servers and SNMP devices; and The Argent Sentinel, a web monitoring product.
  • Automate Enables a wide range of automation imperatives encompassing data aggregation, application integration, system/application/network monitoring and problem resolution, disaster recovery, file/data backup etc.
  • BBMonitor Windows bandwidth test software to monitor bandwidth usage and speeds. LAN and Internet bandwidth meter.
  • Chariot evaluates the performance of networked applications, performs stress tests of network devices and predicts networked application performance prior to deployment.
  • CleverEye providea availability monitoring software for servers, network appliances, databases and applications.
  • CueVision Windows based too to monitor website, servers and network devices.
  • CyberGauge using SNMP automatically creates utilization graphs as well as daily, weekly and monthly QoS and utilzation reports.
  • DotCom-Monitor is an External Web Monitoring Service that brings together Monitoring, Reporting, Notification, Escalation and Analysis for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, DNS, FTP, ICMP and SOAP applications.
  • egInnovations provide Enterprise Management Products with capabilities involving the ability to offer subscription based remote monitoring through a web browser console, real time monitoring and problem diagnosis and proactive alerts.
  • Eye-on Bandwidth is a bandwidth monitor designed for scalability, speed and security . It has multiple user levels with different privilegies, and is managed by a web interface.
  • EZ-NOC provides a website monitoring tool using distributed servers around the world. It also includes network monitoring tools like: DNS, EMAIL, WEBSITE, SSL, ISP Speed Test, What Is My IP and Whois.
  • Ganymede provides performance management for clients,servers, applications, and the network as an integrated system.
  • Gomez provides diagnostic website and web application monitoring services from 12,000+ global testing locations that help companies to measure end-user web performance and troubleshoot application performance problems.
  • Heroix Longitude web-based, agentless application monitoring tool.
  • Integrien features centralized, agentless monitoring of web and data base servers/applications. Used to be SiteAlive from CreationPoint.
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  • IPCheck Server Monitor Network Up-/Downtime Monitoring Monitors critical network resources and detects system failures or performance problems. Freeware available.
  • ACE Live (formerly Network Physics NetSensory) as of Nov '07) passively monitors network traffic providing utilization by protocol, application, host groups as well as topology, re-try and response time information. Good for real-time monitoring and trouble-shooting, also provides alerts and export of reports to web accessible pages.
  • GFI Network Server Monitor Monitors your network & servers for failures and fixes them automatically. Checks Exchange Server, SQL, Oracle, HTTP/FTP, Disk health & space, event logs
  • IMMonitor, is network monitoring software that can monitor chat content, email content and web surfing activities in your network.
  • internetVista remotely monitors web sites and Internet services for availability (http, https, smtp, ftp, nntp, tcp). Notifications sent via email and SMS. Monitoring centres in United States and Europe
  • Labtech Software includes the following features: Remote Monitoring, Software & Hardware Auditing, Remote Control, Software Deployment, Scripting, Automation, Auto-fixing Software Update, Ticketing, and timekeeping.
  • monitis provides a "24 x 7" website, applications, systems, network and web traffic monitoring service helping users quickly identify faults and deficiencies to ensure continuous operations of their IT infrastructure and maintain business operations that provide the ultimate web experience. Particularly Monitis provides personalized Ajax dashboard interface, checks server performance and availability, generates uptime reports, tracks visitors, checks CPU, memory and other systems resources, and alerts its users in case abnormalities are detected. External end-user checks are performed from geographically dispersed servers as well from customer locations. Internal checks can be performed inside of network firewalls through smart agents.
  • MonitorIT monitors, detects, alerts, diagnoses, measures, collects and reports on Windows Servers/Workstations, SNMP & SYSLOG Devices
  • mon.it.us is a free web-based service that grants you a suite of tools for monitoring performance, availability, and traffic statistics. You can establish your website's response time and set up alerts for when a service becomes unavailable. You can also set-up weekly, automated benchmarks to see if changes you.ve made impact speed and performance either positively or negatively.
  • MonitorMagic - Server & Network Monitoring is a proactive monitoring/alerting tool for Windows 2003, 2000 and NT servers, workstations and SNMP devices.
  • N-able OnDemand MonITor Online provides 24×7 proactive network monitoring through status, notification and performance reporting without any network reconfiguration.
  • N-central is an IT governance platform for the mid-enterprise that manages information technology and security services from a business perspective.
  • NetMon hardware box that monitors network/service components including: routers; firewalls; file, web, dhcp, dns, syslog servers. Also provides protocol usage, bandwidth utilization, top web users and destinations, latency, up/down time, TCP/IP services.
  • Network Security Monitoring Tools
    • GFI LANguard network vulnerability scanning, patch management and auditing solution.
    • Net Detective iPhone application Using low level techniques common to NMap and other powerful network auditing tools, NetDetective will expose open TCP ports, UDP ports, and UPnP/Bonjour services running on your network.
    • Network Enforcer Network security software that monitors user behaviors using security filters.
    • Nsauditor is a network security scanner that allows to audit and monitor network for possible vulnerabilities,checks methods that a hacker might use to attack it. Over 45 network tools for monitoring, scanning, sniffing, enumerating and gaining access to machines (access to secured shares and confidential files, also detects and logs network access to shared folders).
    • QRadar isolates the source and identifies corrective measures for dangers hiding in daily network activity.
    • PSentry provides Internet policy control, surveillance and reports in a single tool. Through its management web console, manager can define firewall-like policies over users IM use, file transfers, email, web-surf behaviors.
    • Sentinel analyzes an up-to-date model of the production network to perform automated and systematic configuration audits and diagnose device misconfigurations, policy violations, inefficiencies, and security breaches.
    • System Shepherd delivers end-to-end application visibility (from end-user experience to network to application internals). It is provided as a software service that can optionally be coupled with managed services. The level of optional management is flexible. It can range from Managed Alerting to multi-dimensional SLA-based application management.
    • Techout helps companies measure and optimize the speed and availability of critical online applications, from establishing performance objectives to maintaining peak performance, Techout helps companies measure and optimize the speed and availability of critical online applications.
    • WFilter is an Internet filtering software that can help organizations to monitor and manage all Internet behaviors on their networks. You only need to install WFilter in one computer to monitor your whole network.
    • ZoneRanger from Tavve is a secure network management proxy appliance for the DMZ; it proxies SNMP GET/SET, SNMP Traps, syslog, NetFlow, sFlow, IP status, and TCP port status, delivering the proxied traffic to a network management platform or tool.
  • NetStatus workgroup level monitoring application designed to be used in situations where you need to monitor anywhere from 1 to 50 servers or devices on a network.
  • NetVizor provides network monitoring and surveillance software to track workstations and individual users that may use multiple PC's on a network.
  • NetworksA-OK appliance, provides end to end monitoring of your network and applications (web, email, database) performance and security.
  • NimTech provides NIME an end-to-end TCPIP performance characterization tool based on a client/server architecture. It allows launching various network tests from & between any location to quantify in real-time the performance of a TCPIP network between two endpoints hosts.
  • NPS Network Performance Services provides network, system, application, and security monitoring products and services via a 7x24 Network Operations Center. All products and services include automated and customized alerting, and web based performance reporting.
  • OPNET Panorama continuously monitors thousands of system and application metrics within each server, across all tiers, and automatically spots performance anomalies with advanced deviation tracking.
  • Orion Applications Performance Monitor brings monitoring, alerting, and reporting capabilities to applications and servers. Discover your applications and get the visibility you need into application performance and the underlying operating systems and servers they run on.
  • Overseer Network Monitor is a W2K network monitor providing easy installation, Microsoft Management Console configuration, and runs as a service to provide rock-solid reliability. Monitors websites, network devices, servers, services, and notifies administrators via Email, pager, cell phone, or net send.
  • PagerEnterprise is an automatic system, server and network monitor and notify remote system and network managers when important events occur. It runs on Windows NT/2000 to monitor servers, logfiles, services, SNMP Mibs, routers, TCP/IP, SNMP, disks, programs, web pages, devices, power, and more across Windows NT/2000, Novell NetWare, UNIX, OpenVMS, HP3000, AS/400, IBM, Linux and others.
  • pingwy Monitoring monitors remotely services like http,https,ftp,dns,telnet,ssh,pop,imap,smtp and alerts you by mail and SMAS when the service goes down by mail. It also allows you to have a precise view of your server's access and load times upon different periods.
  • PRTG Traffic Grapher Windows software to monitor bandwidth usage and other network parameters via SNMP. Freeware also available.
  • RSP is a cross-platform, agent-based network/server monitoring, analysis, & hardware tracking program with a web interface and an API for plugins.
  • Server Nanny Network Monitor monitors servers and network devices, sends problem notifications, performs actions, and logs performance data.
  • Server Supervisor monitors the availability and performance of various network resources. The program applies resource-specific approach to handle all cases from regular local workstations to complex web and database servers. It can be used by several people simultaneously. They can use a web interface to configure monitors and receive custom alert notifications depending on their roles. The program comes with built-in statistics analysis tool.
  • ServicePATH from Trendium provides plug-and-play service intelligence system that can collect and synthesize data from networks, applications / business processes and OSS. This synthesized data model is then used to assess and assure service delivery in real-time. The system identifies anomalies as they occur, pinpointing their cause and analyzing their effects on services and the business. It can also automatically initiate corrective action.
  • SimpleServerMonitor is an easy to use network server monitoring tool. It supports Ping, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/FTPS, SMTP/SMTPS, POP3/POP3S, IMAP/IMAPS, and Custom monitors (supports SSL/TLS).
  • SiteMonitor is a website uptime and measurement tools that verifies the performance of non-transactional websites up to every minute from 25 points of presence around the world.
  • SLA Commander integrates with ACE (also from OPNET) to proactively capture traces of problematic transactions.
  • SuperAgenat Monitors all TCP application packets as they travel from the network through the data center and out again, providing a way to measure network round trip time, server response time, data transfer time.
  • uptime software IT Systems Management that monitors, measures and manages across locations (multiple datacenters) environments (physical and virtual), platforms (Windows, Linux, Soalris, AIX, VMware, Novell, HP/UX, etc), applications, and networks.
  • Vantage is Compuware's integrated suite of application performance management products, emphasizing response time metrics integrated with end-to-end performance analysis, presented in both technical and business views.
  • Vigilix event detection and notification software for applications.
  • WatchMouse offers professional remote server monitoring services from 16 locations worldwide: http, https, ftp, pop, imap, dns, etc. Alerting by email, SMS, IM, and pager. Extensive reporting, also useful for SLA monitoring.
  • WatchTower system monitoring and management software application that runs within a Web-based portal environment.
• Big Brother and its clone Big Sister consists of local clients that test system conditions and the availability of network services, and send these status reports to one or more DISPLAY servers where these reports appear as little dots on a web page, or PAGER servers that notify administrators about system problems.
• DUMeter is a Windows tool to provide a visualization of the data that is flowing through your computer's network connection. It includes includes a reporting facility, a notifications and events system
• DSLReports provide measurement reports (e.g. speed tests, security scans, loss).
• elkMonitor monitors your sites around the clock from servers across the globe, elkMonitor will alert you to signs of trouble.
• Emulators
  • Anue Network Emulators are used to generate network latency, delay variation (jitter), packet errors, bit errors and other network impairments in order to test application performance over a WAN prior to deployment.
  • BreakingPoint provides testing tools for application, performance, and security of content-aware network devices.
  • PacketStorm IP Network Emulators reproduce the unfavorable conditions of IP Networks and WANs in a controllable and repeatable lab setting.
  • Shunra develops testing and evaluation tools for internet and intranet based network technologies and products.
• Engineer's Toolkit is a bundle of 49 networking tools that monitors and alerts on availability, bandwidth utilization, and health for hundreds of network devices, provides network diagnostics for troubleshooting and resolving complex network, offers an array of network discovery tools that facilitate IP address management, port mapping and ping sweeps, and eases management of Cisco® devices with tools for real-time NetFlow analysis, configuration management and router management.
• Flow Monitoring ACE Live Netflow
  module uses integrated web-based dashboards to provide a business-centric view of network utilization and application performance to prioritize problem resolution and effectively manage SLAs.
  • Aurora Network Traffic Analysis and Evaluation from IBM.
  • Caligare Flow Inspector from Caligare is a Netflow monitor and analyzer with many graph statistics, low level searching, application recognizer and utilization maps. Available in the US as NetIMonitor through Caligare partner Net US.
  • FlowMon is a NetFlow monitoring solution (IP flows), providing wire speed processing with no packet loss, for all types of networks from 10Mbps to 10 Gbps.
  • InMon provides traffic flow monitoring tools for high-speed switches. The software is able to monitor tens of thousands of switch ports continuously, producing real-time top flows charts, and site-wide application-level traffic matrices.
  • Intermapper Flows from Dartware is a NetFlow and SFlow collector and analyzer that lets you see exactly where traffic comes from, who's sending it, and what it's used for. Runs on Windows, MacOS X, Linux, and Unix.
  • NetDetecor from Nicksun a non-intrusive network security monitoring product that (when deployed as part of your data communications infrastructure) inspects traffic flows, detects the activities of intruders, sets alarms, makes continuous copies of data from the network, and analyzes every packet in the network in real-time at production network traffic rates.
  • Netflow from Cisco.
  • Netflow Analyzer is a product specifically meant for Traffic Analysis & Network Forensics, therefore, gives an in-depth visibility into the network traffic, bandwidth utilization, top talkers in the network etc from various flows, such as, NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, IPFIX, Netstream etc. NetFlow Analyzer also has partnership with Cisco and 3COM.
  • NetQoS uses NetFlow to identify when and where problems are occurring or occurred, identify viruses using real time reporting, remove unwanted traffic instead of unnecessarily upgrading links, view and plan the impact of applications on the network over time.
  • NetIntercept is delivered as a complete system, with hardware and software pre-installed, and captures in real-time and provides later on demand batch analysis of the data.
  • Nexvu Analyzer analyze, classify 3000+ applications and protocols and report 35 metrics related to health, utilization and performance at line speed. It is an application aware network performance monitoring tool with JAVA GUI and full SNMP capabilities. Nexvu also has packet capture and analysis engine and can work as a netflow director. It is available as a software / real appliance and as VMware virtual appliance
  • Orion Netflow Traffic Analyzer enables you to quantify exactly how your network is being used, by whom, and for what purpose. Find the bottlenecks, and shut down the bandwidth hogs.
  • Packeteer provides network traffic characterization, using signatures derived from network layers up through 7, it can then use this information to do TCP rate control (using CoS/ToS. DiffServ & MPLS) to ensure timely performance.
  • PRTG Traffic Grapher Windows software to monitor bandwidth usage and other network parameters via SNMP. Supports Netflow. Freeware also available.
  • Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer provides detailed network utilization information for the users and applications causing the most traffic using a variety of flow-based technologies.
  • sFlow probe from InMon is a monitor/SPAN port probe capable of continuously monitoring application level traffic flows at a full 1Gigabit (over 1,500,000 million packets per second).
  • StealthWatch provides flow-based network performance and security monitoring for enterprise networks.
• FTP
  • FastCopy provides reliable, secure, bandwidth controlled, automated, enhanced file transfer.
  • Trellian Trellian FTP is a file transfer client that allows you to transfer files between your PC and any FTP server on the Internet.
  • WS_FTP for windows provides a fast and easy way to move files securely (with SSL) over the Internet. there is a client and server
• HipLinkXS is a one or two-way wireless data and messaging solution that enables software used for network monitoring, field force automation, email, customer support, help desk, to communicate with data enabled wireless devices, including digital cellular phones, PDAs, one-way and two-way pagers.
• Holistix Web Manager is software installed inside the firewall that monitors and manages all web system components including web servers, databases, urls, applications, etc. Holistix also has a service, called Remote Monitor, that Measures your site's performance 24 hours a day from monitoring locations around the world.
• Internet Control Panel performs checks every five to ten minutes on the availability, performance and content of your website. It also checks other important internet services you depend on; email, file transfer and authorization processes.
• Internet Periscope includes a wide array of tools including security, that allow System Administrators to "see" how well their hosts are functioning on the Internet.
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  • Inventory Genie is a Discovery based Inventory system, that can automatically build an inventory on any subject (specially network & system inventories ) using simple wizards, parsers and multiple protocols (icmp,snmp,sql,http,telnet, ssh,wmi,registry,open ports,...). It can be used to populates CMDBs. It has many pre-made discovery rules. It has the ability to perform remote actions on selected elements based on the information in its DB, thus enables provisioning.
  • PC Inventory Advisor automatically queries all computers on your network and reports back with details about OS and hotfixes, installed software and hardware, network alerts and visual comparison of configurations.
  • Remote Asset Tracker is a network inventory and PC auditing software designed specifically for medium and large companies.
  • Total Network Inventory is a PC audit and Network inventory software for office and large scale enterprise networks. Total Network Inventory interrogates all computers and notebooks on a network and reports back with complete information about OS, service packs, hotfixes, hardware, software, running processes, etc. on remote machines. This information is added to the centralized database and network administrators are able to generate reports about each or all PCs (notebooks) on a network. The program is agent-free and requires no software installed on remote machines (laptops).
• ISDNwatch is an ISDN network management suite for your ISDN routers.
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  • Paglo discovers everything IT and allows users to search and monitor their server, network, user, and configuration information. The Paglo Crawler is open source and it is free to get started with the service.
  • Splunk allows you to search and navigate IT data from applications, servers and network devices in real-time. It includes logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts, code, and metrics
• Keynote Systems is a supplier of software and services for measuring and managing the responsiveness of web-based applications. KeyNote RedAlert is aWeb site monitoring service that can perform end-to-end checks of your a site every 5 or 15 minutes. It can also monitor DNS, email, news & telnet servers.
• MeasureNet.
• MeterWare for Windows 95/NT & UNIX from Technically Elite.
• Metrica Network Performance Reporting (NPR) is a performance monitoring toolset being used by telecoms operators to manage the quality of service and the capacity of their networks.
• NATManager.
• NEPM (Network Equipment Performance Monitor is a two part software system that captures and analyzes logged performance data from IP networked equipment and reports it via e-mail and web pages. It can be hosted on either a Unix or WinNT system or a combination of these.
• NetArx Network Monitoring System monitors client systems and reports information to the Netarx Network Operations Center ("NOC"); a fully staffed vault operating 24 hours a day. The NOC notifies on-site contacts of service failures and proactively detected potential problems.
• Network Tools has a suite of online IP and DNS tools that can be run both locally and remotely to check for any Network Errors.
• NetPredict helps you monitor, predict and optimize the performance of distributed business applications.
• Network Health family from Concord.
• NetMedic.
• Net-One-1, monitors your company's network devices 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• NetOps provides a set of tools for monitoring, logging and reporting network status, focussing on preventive maintenance.
• NetReality provides monitoring and QoS shaping on all OSI layers, from 1 - 7 on WAN links. Real-time and historical reports are provided.
• NetScout Drawing on information generated by NetScout's application-aware probes, intelligent active agents and data collected directly from network devices strategically placed throughout the WAN, SAN, and LAN, the nGenius Performance Management System monitors, troubleshoots, performs capacity planning and reports on the application traffic flowing across the network.
• NextPointS3 provides the ability t define, measure, baseline and report on service levels at many levels from the core network to end user applications.
• PingGraph is a multi-threaded graphical TCP/IP network monitoring and diagnostic tool for Windows 95 and NT.
• Procom+ ISDN/Modem monitoring
• ResponseNetworks provides tools for network service level monitoring and measurements.
• RIPmon provides remote monitoring over IP networks using an agent that physically connects to and communicates with any element through LAN ports, serial ports and/or contact closures. Once connected the agent units interact with the device in native format and translate user queries into SNMP and HTTP responses.
• ROMmon develops easily deployable online network performance metric (passive and active) monitoring system for networking professionals. The system's emphasis are on data aggregation, high availability and high scalability.
• SAA Service Assurance Agent built into Cisco IOS release 12.0(5)T allows measuring response time, net resources, availability, jitter, connect time, packet loss and application performance.
• SftpDrive Maps any SSH server as a Windows network drive. Provides transparent and secure integration of the remote filesystem into Windows without requiring additional server software or configuration.
• Silverback's InfoCare delivers real-time and historical information on faults, assets, performance and security across networks, systems and applications through a unified Web-based interface.
• SNMP Tools:
  • AdventNet SNMP API can be used to build system management, application management and network management applications and applets. It includes class libraries and Java beans for Java SNMP development, as well as a complete MibBrowser for interacting with SNMP enabled devices. The AdventNet Agent Toolkit Java Edition provides a complete GUI-based development environment to build standalone SNMP agents, Multi-Protocol agents, and standalone TL1 agents.

    Also see AdventNet ManageEngine JMX Studio a 100% Java-based development environment that provides Java, J2EE, and EAI middleware application developers, the ability to build JMX and SNMP-based manageability for their applications. It also comes with options for other protocol adaptors like HTML, RMI, CORBA, SOAP, and AMI adaptor for plugging into different types of management consoles.

  • Denika Performance Trender is a trending tool that collects and graphs SNMP details for interface utilization, CPU, Memory, Disk Space, Frame Relay, Database Resources, QoS, Port Errors etc.
  • LoriotPro a generic SNMP manager
  • MIW Multiple Interface Watcher is a graph utility that shows the utilisation of up to 20 different interfaces. The data is requested from the devices using SNMP. MIW is an advanced development of Interface Traffic Indicator that focuses more on the utilization overview of many interfaces than on much information of one interface.
  • OidView is a modular network management analysis tool that uses the SNMP protocol to talk to various agents and devices on a computer network, offering a variety of plug-in modules like a MIB Browser, MIB Manager, Trap Manager, PDU Capture, etc.
  • NetVoyant Provides SNMP-based performance metrics for managing network infrastructure, devices, and services
  • Open NerveCenter is a network management platform, based on SNMP, that is extensible using PERL. NerveCenter correlates events in real time from network and security devices, UNIX and NT systems and applications to improve availability, performance and security.
  • OPENXTRA has a set of SNMP utilities.
  • Quallaby provides PROVISO 2.0, network monitoring and service assurance solution for network service providers.
  • SNMP Explorer provides a tree view of your SNMP managable devices, provides a way to talk to or from the devices, provides a flexible log of transactions, and permits you to transact with the devices with simple yet powerful scripts.
  • SNMP Informant is installed on Windows hosts to enable them to provide SNMP information.
  • SNMP Research
  • SNMP Sweep Engineer's Toolset queries an IP address range to determine which IP addresses are used and which are unused.
  • TrapBlaster SNMP trap management engine that receives, filters and converts SNMP traps. They may then be forwarded to your network management applications.
  • Unbrowse SNMP. A visual SNMP MIB browser, compiler, walker.
  • WinTDS monitors IP-SNMP devices and gives a variety of real-time views of the network status.
  • XRate1 SNMP based network monitoring with statistical tags and OPC Server available.
• Shiva Network Manager
• Shiva InterNet Manager
• StatScope from IP Sciences is an outsourced service providing a customized IP network monitoring and reporting capability.
• TelAlert from CalAmp a package for enunciating alerts and managing via pagers, email, pop up windows etc.
• Third Watch Server Monitor will allow you to monitor all of your critical servers and services on an IP network and be notified of any changes in their status. It is a server monitoring program using TCP/IP. It can monitor via Ping, HTTP, FTP or any other TCP/IP port.
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  • EdgeScape from Akamai, maps user IP addresses to their geographic and network point of origin. This information is assembled into a vast knowledge base and made available to Edgescape customers.
  • GeoBoy Allows you to view traces on a flat map or 3D globe. Incorporate geographical features such as cities, rivers, and political boundaries. Zoom in on areas of interest. Save and restore trace data. Rotate and manipulate maps. Update and customize geographical location cache files.
  • NeoTrace provides graphical traceroute information.
  • PingPlotter is an enhanced traceroute program for Windows 95/98/NT/W2K/XP.
  • Route Explorer provides visibility, analysis and diagnosis of IP networks from a routing point of view
  • SMARTHawk from Solana Networks is an IP network monitoring and diagnostics tool focused on topology, routing and qos
  • VisualRoute a GUI based traceroute for Windows.
• Triticom has software based network protocol analyzers, LAN traffic monitors, RMON probes, and an SNMP manager.
• USR Total Control.
• View2000 runs under Windows NT and has the ability to monitor multi-vendor network equipment configurations, using flat file databases for speed and Oracle RDBMS for SQL report queries, and NOT using SNMP.
• Viola Networks provides NetAlly and other tools that include a suite of tests to provide "true" Service Level Management (SLM), the ability to audit policies and Quality of Service (QoS), and automatically conduct preventive maintenance tests to discover hidden problems in the network.
• VisualPulse from DataMetrics provide realtime and historical reports on RTT & loss.
• Vivere Networks have a wireless sensor that monitor and analyze multi-AP topologies in real-time, including 802.11 packets for all access points in range as well as other IP network traffic.
  • ACE Live VoIP Monitoring module supplies real-time and historical data in a business context including both application performance and call quality.
  • Apparent Networks Uses standard protocols (ICMP and/or UDP) to transmit small packet configurations across the actual path the application takes. These packets vary in size, pattern, and spacing to fully characterize the network path. Detects signatures used to identify the likely cause of the problem, including MTU mismatch, QoS mismatch, duplex mismatch, media errors, path congestion, excessive packet reordering, etc.
  • NetQoS VoIP Monitor Network-based call setup and call quality monitoring product that tracks the call quality users experience, provides alerts on call performance problems, and isolates performance issues to speed troubleshooting and MTTR.
  • Orion VOIP Monitor proactively analyze VoIP quality across WAN links, as well as monitor the underlying systems and protocols that the VoIP environment relies upon.
  • Prognosis provides systems management software for performance monitoring of IP telephony, VOIP, availability, network management, Windows, UNIX and Linux.
  • QOVIA provides Voice over IP monitoring and management, sends alerts when it predicts call quality will be affected.
  • Telchemy provides Voice over IP (VoIP) passive call quality monitoring and active Quality of Service (QoS) management. Designed specifically to be embedded into VoIP end-systems, management devices and DSPs, Telchemy's non-intrusive monitoring technology, VQmonTM, is the only technology to model time-varying impairments and their effects on end-user-perceived quality in real-time.
  • ZTI provide LANTraffic V2 and IP Traffic Test & Measure software testing tools for automatic generation of TCP and UDP traffic.

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